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An acidic region of the 89K murine cytomegalovirus immediate early protein interacts with DNA

¹ Abteilung Virologie, Institut für Mikrobiologie, Universität Ulm, D-7900 Ulm
and² Institut für Klinische und Molekulare Virologie der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Loschgestrasse 7, D-8520 Erlangen, Germany

The product of the ie 1 gene, the regulatory immediate early protein pp89 of murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV), interacts with core histones, which can mediate the association of pp89 with DNA. We report the capacity of pp89 to interact directly with DNA in the absence of cellular proteins. After separation of proteins by SDS–PAGe, pp89 bound ds- and ssDNA, with a preference for ssDNA. Binding to specific DNA sequences in the MCMV genome was not detected. The DNA-binding region of pp89 was located to amino acids 438 to 534 by analysis of deletion mutants expressed as -galactosidase or TrpE fusion proteins. This region is identical to the highly acidic C-terminal region spanning amino acids 424 to 532. The human cytomegalovirus IE1 protein, which contains a similar extended C-terminal acidic region, does not react with DNA under the same experimental conditions.

Received 4 July 1991; accepted 15 November 1991.

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